Personality is one of the most telling things about us – it demonstrates the differences in the way we each think, feel and behave. Understanding someone’s personality can help you better understand who someone is and how they view the world. I recently listened to a podcast about the Myers Briggs personality types and it got me thinking about how great it might be to create some scrapbook pages that center around personality types and traits.

I dug into my paperwork and found some of the various personality tests I’ve taken over the years to help me determine what approach to take in creating a personality based page. I decided to focus my page on my StrengthsFinder results and here is the final page which outlines the top 5 themes resulting from my assessment. I think this layout represents a really interesting look into who I am and how I react to the world.

There are a lot of ways to assess personality types that don’t require expensive tests. I’ll outline just a few below in case it’s interesting to you. You can easily use any of the results you might find about your personality (or the personalities of your friends and family) to create so many different pages!

1. The StrengthsFinder test can be taken by purchasing a copy of the book StrengthsFinder 2.o which allows you to take the assessment as well as access a wealth of information about the various themes.
2. The Myers-Briggs test is a common test that most people have heard of which ultimately identifies which personality type (of 16 standard types) that you might have. There are a number of online options that will allow you to identify your Myers Brigges type for free. One that I’ve used with success is 16 Personalities.
3. Others I’ve seen online include See My Personality, Personality Assessor, and Psych Central Personality Test. I am sure a quick google search could offer you thousands of other options!

In addition to using specific personality measures to document personality on your scrapbook pages, you can also just make an effort to create more pages that tell the stories behind the various personalities among your family and friends. The personalities of the people you care about can tell the world a lot about who you are and what kinds of people you like to surround yourself with in life.

Here are a few ideas that might help you as you try to add more personality traits on your pages:

1. Use word art pieces to identify the traits that you see in yourself or a friend for a visually interesting scrapbook page.
2. Choose one personality trait about someone and focus all of your journaling on that particular trait and how it makes them who they are!
3. Compare multiple people’s personality types or traits on one page. This would be a perfect way to compare and contrast your immediate family’s various personalities.
4. Use colors on your page that reinforce the primary ‘feel’ of the persons personality (for example, using bright colors for happy go lucky, pink for sweetness, purple for ambition, and blue for loyal).
5. Ask yourself what elements, patterns, colors and shapes come to mind when you think of a particular person. That can help guide you to reinforce the page with things that remind you of them!

OK, I hope you’re feeling inspired to create some pages about your personality and the personalities in your life! So, now it’s your turn! I would love to see what you can do to document personality by creating a scrapbook page that tells the story of someone’s personality type or traits.  I’m hosting a challenge over on the forums and I hope you will come play along!  Check it out at The Drawing Board: Challenges.

About the Author: Amy lives in Reston, VA with her husband of 14 years and their 10 year old boy/girl twins. Their 19 year old daughter has just started her third year at West Virginia University!  Amy has been scrapbooking since the early 1990s but discovered digital scrapbooking in 2005 when her twins were born and has primarily scrapped digitally since that time. She is passionate about telling her family’s stories and documenting their life together! Amy is a huge reader (mostly literary fiction) and is a pop culture junkie! She also LOVES all things beauty & makeup!